Chapter & Verse: Exodus 14:13-14

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sue Walker learns how to trust God

This scripture hit me between the eyes 19 days before my 30-year-old daughter was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in December 2020, during lockdown. Now at some distance, I can look back at what … Read More

Colours of worship

29/08/2023 | Reform

Kim Wood celebrates the Meeting House at the University of Sussex

The University of Sussex was built in 1961 and is one of the seven ‘plate glass’ universities established in the 1960s. On the campus, in the midst of typical … Read More

Editorial: How to listen

29/08/2023 | Reform

I love preaching, for many reasons but mainly, I suspect, because I like the sound of my own voice. As I write, though, I’m preparing a sermon for the 11th Sunday after Trinity and simply dreading it.

The text is … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I handed in my keys and walked home with tears streaming down my face’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey clears out and finds lost treasures

Last Saturday I went into Brentwood United Reformed Church for the last time. Men from the two other churches in the pastorate were loading things into a hired white van – the … Read More

When asylum seekers are found

29/08/2023 | Reform

It’s not just the asylum seekers whose lives are changed by one of the latest projects to win a URC Community Project Award. Laurence Wareing reports

The thing about DARE, says Negan, is that ‘you don’t have to go to … Read More

Art in Focus – September 2023

29/08/2023 | Reform

CrucifixionPhilip Eglin2008

Philip Eglin is an exciting ceramic artist. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1986 and being awarded the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts ten years later, he has produced an outstanding series of works. They … Read More